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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Shishmaref in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 65.908S, -166.388WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 41 km SSW of Shishmaref, Alaska (25 miles). Unique identifier: at00oa1h6e. Ids that are associated to the event: at00oa1h6e. Exact location of earthquake, -166.388° West, 65.908° North, depth 29 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:35:02 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 08:35:02 / July 9, 2016 @ 8:35 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km SSW of Shishmaref, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -166.388° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Shishmaref, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-09 08:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 08:39:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status REVIEWED Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7240421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176.399985888 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00oa1h6e Id of event.
Event Code 00oa1h6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oa1h6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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